Articles

A presidential regulation on Indonesia’s National Sea Policy recently issued by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) incorporates the Global Maritime Fulcrum and outlines a number of strategies to fulfil Indonesia’s maritime aspiration.

Accessing Lockheed Martin’s international supply chains has been made easier with the signing of a new three year global supply chain agreement. The...

MAN main and gen-set engines have been chosen for two new fleet support tanker ships being constructed for the Royal Australian Navy. Navantia, the major...

Iranian vessels were manning weapons as they confronted a U.S. Navy flotilla that was passing through a crucial shipping lane in international waters on...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte this week (March 2016) accused the United States of having a provocative stance on the South China Sea and said...

By Conor M. Kennedy and Andrew S. Erickson* Hainan Province’s unique geography makes its buildup of maritime militia units the spear tip of China’s prosecution of gray zone operations in the South China Sea: as a standing, front-line force whose leading units are lauded as models for other localities to emulate.

The Department of Defence is to establish a new Maritime Technical College in Adelaide, to identify, train or retrain workers for its shipbuilding program....

The third Future Submarine industry day was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 23 March 2017 at which senior Defence officials...

Mina Pollmann*, Director of External Relations for CIMSEC, asks Professor Steve Biddle** at George Washington University about anti-access area-denial (A2/AD) which has become a popular concept when discussing China’s maritime strategy in the Western Pacific.

World naval developments. March 2017.

By Norman Friedman* During February and March, Kim Jong-Un continued to escalate his war of nerves against South Korea and its ally the United States. The North Koreans appeared to be preparing for another nuclear test, and some observers interpreted a relatively short-range North Korean missile test as part of an ICBM development program (this now seems unlikely).